18 “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?
I wish I had died before any eye saw me.19 If only I had never come into being,
or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!20 Are not my few days almost over?
Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy21 before I go to the place of no return,
to the land of gloom and utter darkness,22 to the land of deepest night,
of utter darkness and disorder,
where even the light is like darkness.”